Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had attended his father Solomon when he was alive, asking, “How do you advise me to respond to this people?”

They replied, “If you will be kind to this people and please them by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.”

But he rejected the advice of the elders who had advised him, and he consulted with the young men who had grown up with him, the ones attending him.

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